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PRESS NOTICE 



THE HAMPTON NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE 

HAMPTON, VIRGINIA 



Emancipation Day at Hampton Institute 

Hampton, Va., Jan. 2 — Two thousand represent- 
ative colored people of Hampton and vicinity gathered 
on New Year's Day in the Hampton Institute Gym- 
nasium, at two-thirty, to celebrate the Forty-seventh 
anniversary ot the Emancipation Proclamation. Rev. 
A. A. Graham, pastor of Z1011 Church, Phoebus, Va., 
was the presiding officer. The best white and colored 
people came together tc hear the -.vcr.dcrful story ot 
Negro progress during the years of his lreedom. The 
audience was made up of prosperous-looking, intelli- 
gent, attentive, and responsive people. 

Trie chief address was delivered by President J. 
A. Cotton, of Henderson Normal Institute, Hender- 
son, N. C, who spoke on "The Negro's Opportunity 
for the Future " 

ADDRESS OF DR. COTTON 

Dr. Cotton grouped his remarks about four topics: 
cash, culture, character, and Christianity. He empha- 
sized the importance of training Negro men and wo- 
men who will prove themselves dependable and fear- 
less in doing what is right. He urged the colored 
people to serve God aright by helping their fellow-men. 

He declared that the Negro race and the nation 
are dying for the want of love — love that means self- 
sacrifice and service which is Christlike. 

DR. FRISSELL SPEAKS 

Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Insti- 
tute, spoke gloquently concerning the fitness of cele- 
brating the anniversary of the Emancipation Procla- 



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forty years to the upbuilding of the Negro and Indian 
races through agricultural and industrial training. He 
referred to the excellent work which is being done by 
Hampton students who have gone out like Christian 
soldiers to fight against ignorance, superstition, and 
sin. Where men had given their lives for fieedom, it 
was fitting, he declared, that Negro men and women 
should reconsecrate their lives to noble service. 

Dr. Frissell expressed the hope that year by year 
the colored people would gather at Hampton Institute 
and learn anew that through great tribulation men 
come to their best. 



NEGRO PROGRESS 

Rev. A. A. Graham said that he was glad the 
yoang people ot Hampton Institute, who are the hope 
of their race, could face the older people and hear the 
storv ot e.nancipition. He outlined the Negro's up- 
hill climb and the marvelous transformation in the 
colored people through less than fifty years of freedom. 
It was significant, he declared, that on the old battle- 
fields there had sprung up institutions for the proper 
education of Negro youth. He referred with pride 
to the handwork of colored women which was on ex- 
hibition at che Hampton Institute Gymnasium and 
to the thirty-horse power automobile outside of the 
Gymnasium which had been built "from the ground up" 
by a Negro youth of Hampton. 

David Owl, a Cherokee Indian, who is a Hampton 
student, brought the people a simple, straightforward, 
manly message of congratulation on their progress. 

Tandy W. Coggs, a colored student at Hampton 
Institute, spoke on "Negro Education" He declared 
that the educated Negro has been showing the people 
that thinking and doing go together. He showed that 
General Armstrong's belief in the capacity of the 
Negro for progress, which led to the founding of 
Hampton Institute, had been well grounded. 

INTERESTING PROGRAM 

Mr. Tressler Scott, of Hampton Institute, led a 
chorus of fifty-voices in the singing of three selections, 
including "Fairy Land" and Native Land." Rev. J- 
W. Patterson, of Hampton, offered the invocation. 

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Williams, of Hampton. The Hampton Institute Band 
played a selection and a medley. The audience sang 
"My Country 'tis of Thee" and "O Freedom." The 
benediction was pronounced by Rev. John H. Gray, 
of Hampton. 

The Hampton Institute Battalion, commanded by 
Capt. Allen Washington, associate commandant, met 
the large gathering of colored people in Hampton and 
escorted them to Hampton Institute. 



KINDLY SEND MARKED COPY TO W. A. AERY, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, V A. 



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